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Unattended Installation of Team Foundation Server 2012
This post instructs you on how to run an unattended installation of Team Foundation Server, a new feature to TFS 2012. There is another copy of this post located here, on the TFS Setup,...
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Improvements in .NET Framework Setup for Developers, IT Pros, and Users
The only experience most Microsoft customers have with the .NET Framework is the deployment and installation experience, which is why we spend so much time analyzing opportunities to improve it. For...
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High Altitude
No computer programming stuff today; just some fun for Friday. As I'm writing this Felix Baumgartner's attempt to set the world record for skydiving height by diving from a helium balloon has been...
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Is C# a strongly typed or a weakly typed language?
Presented as a dialogue, as is my wont! Is C# a strongly typed or a weakly typed language? Yes. That is unhelpful. I don't doubt it. Interestingly, if you rephrased the question as an "and" question,...
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More Q&A for the C++ AMP book
As we shared last week, Kate Gregory and Ade Miller have released C++ AMP, an exploration of accelerated massive parallelism with Microsoft® Visual C++®. In that post, Ade answered a few of our...
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Building a custom control using XAML and C#
You may already know that one of the most powerful features of the Windows 8 XAML platform is the flexibility the platform provides to create custom controls. XAML provides features like Dependency...
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Release Notes for 10/15/2012
Below are the release notes from this week's deployment. Improvements and Bug Fixes Added the Action Bar to the project home and documentation tabs. CodePlex now 100% ASP.NET MVC (bye bye Web Forms)....
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Team Foundation Server and Xcode projects with git-tf
One of the Team Foundation Server Developers, Edward Thomson, reached out to me this morning: Any way I could get my blog with the fancy new VS 2012 styles? My answer was: “We are only doing this for...
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Locking and git-tf and... danger?
(The other one of Edward’s posts) ***************************** If you haven't yet seen or heard about the new git-tf tool from Microsoft, this blog post probably won't make any sense. So... go...
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Getting websites ready for Internet Explorer 10 on Windows Phone 8
As we announced in June, Windows Phone 8 will ship with Internet Explorer 10 – the same advanced web browsing engine that powers Windows 8. We’ll have much more to say about Internet Explorer 10 soon....
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Eastern Canada Speaking Tour - Coming to a City Near You This Winter!
Starting in early December I’ll be on the road delivering Visual Studio LightSwitch training to cities in Eastern Canada & Vermont. Yes, that’s right, a small Italian woman from California...
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ALM Rangers ship the new Branching and Merging Guide v2.1
We are pleased to announce that we have released the new Branching and Merging Guide using the new ALM Rangers documentation style as discussed in ALM Rangers – Raising the Quality Bar for...
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“B-Movie Madness” Sample Now Available
When we released F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web last month, we made a short F# launch video available: F# 3.0 Information Rich Programming. The video featured a sample C#/F# MVC4...
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.NET Framework 4.5 – Off to a great start
The .NET Framework just passed 3 million downloads. During this time, we’ve been monitoring your experience, paying attention to both telemetry and social traffic. One of the first things I do every...
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Pausing and resuming test execution from the test runner in Microsoft Test...
Not certain how Microsoft manages to get the incredible people we do to be our MVPs – but I am very glad we do! Today on a call i mentioned not having time to do blog posts for the new features in...
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Populate Test Suites using hierarchical queries in Microsoft Test Manager
Running the ALM blog has been a hoot and from the readership growth it looks like people are finding it of value(thank you!) This posts represents a bit of an experiment of having our MVPs...
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An easy solution for improving app launch performance
Over the last ten years of building the .NET runtime, quite a number of assumptions have changed. Early on we could assume that most computer users only had one processor. Today, the assumption is that...
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Easily Deploy Your LightSwitch Apps to Azure Websites in Minutes
As part of my demo preps for all the conferences I’ve spoken at recently I’ve been deploying my LightSwitch apps to Azure websites and I can honestly say that it is by far the easiest way to get a...
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Project Austin Part 5 of 6: Shadow Rendering
When we designed the user experience of Austin, we spent quite some time thinking about the different page views and layouts, and how to transition between them. We wanted to create an immersive...
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Updated Windows Phone Store Badge Now Available
I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of the refreshed Windows Phone Store badge. The badge provides official branding assets to help you market your Windows Phone app, and help your...
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